# Close API

- Registry name: `city.close/close-api` · version 1.2.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Travel & booking, Commerce & marketing, Datasets & public data, Search & data, Maps, location & weather
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Not declared (tools carry no read/destructive hints)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=city.close%2Fclose-api
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/city.close--close-api.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Walk, bike, and transit travel times from every US census block to nearby amenities.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://mcp.close.city/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `find\_place`: Look up a US city or town by name \(free, no key\). Returns matches with their census place GEOID and centre point \(lon/lat\). The entry point: feed a GEOID to blocks\_in\_area, or a centre to walkability\_summary.
- `get\_catalog`: List the travel modes and the destination-type taxonomy \(free, no key\). Use it to resolve type names to the numeric ids the other tools take. Modes are walk, bike, transit — there is no drive mode.
- `walkability\_summary`: Fastest travel time from a location to each destination category, by mode \(metered: 1 token per returned row\). One origin: block\_geoid or lat+lon. Many origins \(up to 250\): block\_geoids or points — one batch call and one rate-limit request, with rows tagged by origin. Batching saves requests and con
- `nearby\_pois`: Nearby points of interest and the travel time to each, from a location \(metered: 1 token per returned row\). One origin: block\_geoid or lat+lon; keep limit small to control spend and context size. Many origins \(up to 250\): block\_geoids or points — one batch call and one rate-limit request, rows tagge
- `isochrone`: The area reachable from a location within a time budget, as GeoJSON contours \(metered: 10 tokens per contour\). Give block\_geoid or lat+lon. Defaults to a single 30-minute contour; ask for more only when needed \(bodies can be large\).
- `blocks\_in\_area`: Per-block travel times for every census block in an area \(metered: 1 token per returned row\). Give place\_geoid \(from find\_place\) for a whole city, or center \{lat, lon\} + radius\_m. Rows carry a numeric mode\_id.
- `get\_token\_balance`: Check the token balance of the API key in use, without spending any tokens. Works even at a zero balance. Requires the Authorization bearer key.
- `request\_sign\_in`: Start free sign-up for the user: email them a six-digit code. The user must read the code from their own inbox and give it to you, then call redeem\_code. This is how an agent gets the user an API key \(5,000 free tokens, no card\).
- `redeem\_code`: Complete sign-up with the six-digit code the user received, and return a new API key \(shown once\). Call request\_sign\_in first. The key grants 5,000 free tokens; store it and pass it as the Authorization bearer on future calls.
- `join\_close\_plus`: Get a Stripe Checkout URL for the Close+ membership \($10/month: 5,000 API tokens granted monthly plus member features on the close.city map\). The user pays in their own browser: give them the returned URL and stop. Needs a fresh six-digit code from request\_sign\_in, read by the user from their own in

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